Ding Shisun

Ding Shisun (5 September 1927-12 October 2019) was Chair of the China Democratic League from 1996 to 2005.

Biography
Ding Shisun was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China in 1927, and he became a mathematics professor in 1950. He went on to serve as director of the mathematics department at Beijing University from 1952 to 1984 and as the university president from 1984 to 1988. Ding also became active in politics as a member of the China Democratic League Central Committee in 1988, and he served as party chairman from 1996 to 2005. He died in 2019.